[Constitution Day]

LOL!!! THe History Channel has recently been doing a documentary on the last defining battles of the Civil War.
Surprisingly (sarcasm) they disagree with the Wlat Brigade on many subjects (including the claim that no blacks served as Confederate soldiers).
So who should I trust - the History Channel or the Wlat Brigade? I'll take the History Channel.

Sorry!
I was in the midst of posting a thread today and almost missed your reply.

As evidenced on this thread, Wlat and his minions seem to be still tinkering with their super-secret "Cut and Paste" machine! :)

I will take the History Channel over Wlat & his ilk any day.

FRegards-
CD

[WhiskeyPapa]

I will take the History Channel over Wlat & his ilk any day.

If you watched the show based on Jay Winek's "April, 1865" then you heard Lee quoted as saying that he "surrendered as much to the goodness of Lincoln as to the army of Grant."

One of the odd things about that show was that they said morale in Lee's army was still good even at the last, but failed to note that his army had 60,000 desertions.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

So who should I trust - the History Channel or the Wlat Brigade? I'll take the History Channel.

If we're talking about the same program, "April 1865: The Month That Saved America" then I don't think either Walt and I will dispute it. The fact that in March 1865 the confederate congress passed legislation authorizing the raising of black combat troops is undisputable. What I dispute is the ridiculous claim that the confederate army enlisted blacks in combat roles throughout the war. The evidence against that is overwhelming. Any blacks with the confederate army prior to the spring of 1864 were there in an unauthorized, in fact illegal status. At that time the confederate congress passed legislation authorizing the enlistment of free blacks and slaves for support roles only.